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==Photographs== <!-- Put references into this article from books or web pages or your edit will be deleted --> [[File:Rolleicord 1955.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A Rolleicord camera (1955), which Kirchherr used]] Kirchherr asked the Beatles if they would mind letting her take photographs of them in a photo session, which impressed them, as other groups had only [[Snapshot (photography)|snapshots]] that were taken by friends. The next morning Kirchherr took photographs with a [[Rolleicord]] camera,<ref name="AstridKirchherrBeatlesPhotographerInterviewed">{{cite web|url=http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/absoluteelsewhere/505/astrid-kirchherr-beatles-photographer-interviewed-1994-young-free-and-wild/ |title= Astrid Kirchherr, Beatles Photographer, Interviewed (1994): Young, free and wild. |first=Graham |last=Reid |publisher=Elsewhere |access-date=30 May 2011}}</ref> at a fairground in a municipal park called ''[[Hamburger Dom]]'' which was close to the Reeperbahn,<ref name="FreshAirinterviewwithAstrid"/> and in the afternoon she took them all (minus Best, who decided not to go) to her mother's house in Altona.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=223}}<ref name="TheBeatlesAnthologyDVD">''The Beatles Anthology'' DVD (2003) (Episode 1 β 0:47:16) Harrison talking about Kircherr, Voormann and Volmer.</ref> Kirchherr's bedroom (which was all in black, including the furniture, with silver foil on the walls and a large tree branch suspended from the ceiling), was decorated especially for Voormann, with whom she had a relationship, although after the visits to the Kaiserkeller their relationship became purely platonic. Kirchherr started dating Sutcliffe, although she always remained a close friend of Voormann.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=64}}{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=224}} Kirchherr later supplied Sutcliffe and the other Beatles with [[Phenmetrazine|Preludin]], which, when taken with beer, made them feel euphoric and helped to keep them awake until the early hours of the morning. The Beatles had taken Preludin before, but it was only possible at the time to obtain Preludin with a doctor's prescription note. Kirchherr's mother procured them from a local chemist, who supplied them without asking questions.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=66}} After meeting Kirchherr, Lennon filled his letters to [[Cynthia Lennon|Cynthia Powell]] (his girlfriend at the time) with "Astrid said this, Astrid did that",<ref name="AstridKirchherrquotesaboutPiczo">{{cite web|url=http://astridkirchherr.piczo.com/?g=15644690&cr=3|title=Quotes about Kirchherr |publisher=Piczo |access-date=30 May 2011}}</ref> which made Powell jealous, until she read that Sutcliffe was in a relationship with Kirchherr.{{sfn|Lennon|2005|p=78}} When Powell visited Hamburg with Dot Rhone (McCartney's girlfriend at the time) in April 1961, they stayed at Kirchherr's house.{{sfn|Lennon|2005|p=91}} In August 1963, Kirchherr met Lennon and Cynthia in Paris while they were both there for a belated honeymoon, as Kirchherr was there with a girlfriend for a few days' holiday. The four of them went from wine bar to wine bar and finally ended up back at Kirchherr's lodgings, where all four fell asleep on Kirchherr's single bed.{{sfn|Lennon|2005|pp=162β163}} The Beatles met Kirchherr again in Hamburg in 1966 when they were touring Germany, and Kirchherr gave Lennon the letters he had written to Sutcliffe in 1961 and 1962. Lennon said it was "the best present I've had in years".{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=614}} All of the Beatles wrote many letters to Kirchherr: "I only have a couple from George [Harrison], which I'll never show anyone, but he wrote so many. So did the others. I probably threw them away. You do that when you're young β you don't think of the future."<ref name="AstridKirchherrquotesPiczo"/> Harrison later asked Kirchherr to arrange the cover of his ''[[Wonderwall Music]]'' album in 1968.<ref name="AstridonLife"/> ===The Beatles haircut and clothes=== <!-- Put references into this article from books or web pages or your edit will be deleted --> Kirchherr is credited with inventing the Beatles' [[moptop]] haircut although she disagreed, saying: "All that rubbish people said, that I created their hairstyle, that's rubbish! Lots of German boys had that hairstyle. Stuart [Sutcliffe] had it for a long while and the others copied it. I suppose the most important thing I contributed to them was friendship."{{sfn|Badman|2000|p=61}}{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=245}} In 1995, Kirchherr told BBC Radio Merseyside: "All my friends in art school used to run around with this sort of what you call Beatles haircut. And my boyfriend then, Klaus Voormann, had this hairstyle, and Stuart liked it very very much. He was the first one who really got the nerve to get the [[Brylcreem]] out of his hair and asking me to cut his hair for him. Pete [Best] has really curly hair and it wouldn't work."<ref name="InterviewBBCLiverpool"/> Kirchherr says that after she cut Sutcliffe's hair, Harrison asked her to do the same when she was visiting Liverpool, and Lennon and McCartney had their hair cut in the same style while they were in Paris, by Kirchherr's friend, Vollmer, who was living there at the time as an assistant to photographer [[William Klein (photographer)|William Klein]].<ref name="FreshAirinterviewwithAstrid"/> After moving into the Kirchherr family's house, Sutcliffe used to borrow her clothes, as he was the same height as Kirchherr. He wore her leather pants and jackets, collarless jackets, oversized shirts, and long scarves. He also borrowed a corduroy suit with no lapels that he wore on stage, which prompted Lennon to sarcastically ask if his mother had lent him the suit.<ref name="FreshAirinterviewwithAstrid"/>
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